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Home of the Brave

Encountering the Other, Part Two

Home of the Brave

Scott Carrier

Society And Culture

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

I was driving around rural western Colorado, near the border with Utah, near where Jack Kerouac saw a vision of God in the clouds that looked like Pooh Bear. I was looking for people I was a little afraid of—Republicans, Trump supporters—and there on the side of the highway were three signs that made me think I was in the right place.

Music: Main Theme, Soundtrack for To Kill A Mockingbird by Elmer Bernstein

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I was driving around Western Colorado near the border with Utah, near where Jack

0:08.1

Karowak saw a vision of God in the clouds that looked like poo bear. I was looking for people I was a little afraid of,

0:17.0

Republicans, Trump supporters. And there on the side of the highway at a place you can pull off and park there were three signs that made me think I was in the right place.

0:25.0

They were three signs that made me that tell you what you're looking at, but what you're looking

0:38.6

at from there is the Grand Mesa, said to be the largest flat top mountain in the world.

0:45.4

But that can't be true.

0:47.0

Sounds like fake news to me.

0:49.6

Grand Mesa is also said to be the home of 60,000 cows and 30,000 sheep, which I believe, because up on top of the

0:57.6

flat mountain, there are 300 lakes. Lots of water and the slopes coming down on all sides have pastures of grass and

1:05.8

flowers from top to bottom. Almost all of it federal land managed by the Forest Service

1:12.1

which leases it out to ranchers through grazing permits.

1:16.1

This is cowboy country, Trump country.

1:20.9

The three signs were at the edge of a pasture next to a creek with

1:25.7

cottonwood trees turning red and yellow. The first sign had an image of the

1:31.1

American flag and said,

1:33.4

if you can't stand in respect for these colors,

1:36.4

then seek another flag in another country.

1:39.0

GTFO, get the fuck out.

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The second sign said. FO, get the fuck out.

1:43.6

The second sign said, only USA Citizens should vote in USA Elections.

1:49.4

Only USA Citizens should receive our government officially in the USA Census.

1:59.8

The third sign said, no politician who supports gun control should get arm protection paid for by those

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